Tim Cook’s retirement
September 1st is Tim Cook's official last day as CEO of Apple after 15 years at the helm of that now-dominant company. He took over from Steve Jobs, an iconic…
Black holes, LHC, Star Wars, quantum uncertainty… if it is of general geek interest, but doesn’t fit into one of the other categories, it lands here.
Am I part of the Indieweb?
Juhis tells us that there is no membership card for the Indieweb blogging community. I like his thesis as I sort of feel like I'm at least on the periphery…
AI Waste
I have Opinions™ about artificial intelligence. I'm not wholly against it, but I do feel that the current over-enthusiastic investment and circular dealing in the industry is a toxic aberration.…
AI watermarking
I came across something on Engadget about AI watermarking being implemented to comply with new EU regulations. The topic was a new one for me, and piqued my interest. A…
Organoid Intelligence
I read an excellent article on Wired the other day on the topic of organoids and thought I'd share a bit about it here. Even the basic concepts of this…
About /now
One of the posts I came across during Blaugust was this one by David Somers aka Omz13 about Nownownow. It piqued my interest but less for the discussion of Nownownow…
Python comes with batteries included
Another Blaugust post, another bit of inspiration comes my way... Juhis posted on their blog about Python's philosophy of "batteries are included". This is a design philosophy I can respect,…
Watching Star Trek the original series again
My wife Irene and I watched Star Trek: Enterprise recently- the whole series, beginning to end in order. I acquired access to the Paramount Plus streaming service to facilitate this…
Tools for bullying
In my personal experience children can be horrible creatures. I moved a lot as a kid and this indirectly contributed to me being the 'odd man out' at nearly every…
Wished-for superpower: selective flawless memory
The Blaugust Group Project for today is: There are a lot of things I could ask for and, on a different day, I would probably choose something else. But for…